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publications
and presentations
book: cognition of value in aristotle’s ethics: promise of enrichment, threat of destruction (state university of new york press, 2002), 218 pp. | current research project: levinas and plato: an encounter (in process) articles: 00's "the eternal and the new: socrates and levinas on desire and need," in levinas and the ancients, silvia benso and brian schroeder, editors, indiana university press (studies in continental thought) (2008) 90's “aristotelian resources for feminist thinking,” in feminism and ancient philosophy, julie k. ward, editor, routledge (1996), pp. 95-117 | “on the metaphysical presuppositions of aristotle's nicomachean ethics,” journal of value inquiry, martinus nijhoff, the hague, volume 26 (1992), pp. 317-340 80's “human being, beast and god: the place of human happiness according to aristotle and some twentieth century philosophers,” st. john's review, annapolis, maryland, volume 38, no. 2 (1988-2), pp. 21-47 (reprinted in the crossroads of norm and nature: essays on aristotle's 'ethics' and 'metaphysics', may sim, editor, rowman and littlefield press, 1995, pp. 29-50) reviews
published in the review
of
metaphysics: 00's "need or gift: ebreo and levinas on love," renaissance society of america, march 19-21, 2009, ucla and the getty museum, los angeles (organized panel on "leone ebreo's dialoghi d'amore across genres, times and culture") (forthcoming) | "the eternal and the new: socrates and levinas on desire and need," levinas research seminar, université de montréal, montreal, quebec, canada, may 16-18, 2008 | comment on "taking responsibilities seriously: levinas and human rights" by scott davidson (levinas research seminar, mcmaster university, hamilton, ontario, canada, march 23-25, 2007 | "corinne painter on aristotle and animals," a comment on "a critical appropriation of aristotle's conception of the non-moral status of the animal," ancient philosophy society, depaul university, chicago, april 20-22, 2006 discussion leader, silvia benso's "levinas: another ascetic priest?", levinas research seminar, assumption college, worcester, massachusetts, september 24, 2005 | "plato and levinas on freedom: an encounter," iapl (international association for philosophy and literature), helsinki, finland, june 6, 2005 (organized session entitled "levinas encountering the ancients") | discussion of hermann cohen's ethics of maimonides, cpjc (society for continental philosophy in a jewish context), october 30, 2004 | “a rhetoric of activism,” pacific division, american philosophical association meeting, san francisco, march 31, 2001 (invited participant in apa symposium session entitled “pedagogies of ‘persuasion’”) | “ecstatic connections and global social change,” fourth biannual radical philosophy association meeting, chicago, november 3, 2000 (panel entitled “relational community”) 90's 80's “dialectical
method but metaphysical ground: a response
to gomez-lobo,” colloquium on aristotle's ethics and metaphysics,
university of dayton,
dayton, ohio,
november 1987 (comment on “on the foundations of aristotle's ethics” by
alfonso
gomez-lobo) | “the role of the ergon
argument in aristotle's nicomachean
ethics ,” sixth annual
conference of the society for ancient
greekphilosophy and the
society
for the study of islamic philosophy and science: action in
ancient and medieval philosophy, baruch college,
city
university of new york, new york, new york, october 1987 “gossip:
a reply,” pacific division, american philosophical
association, march 1987 (comment on “gossip” by lawrence m. hinman) | “on
the metaphysical presuppositions of aristotle's nicomachean ethics,”
fifth annual conference of the society for ancient greek philosophy and
the society
for the study of islamic philosophy and science: ethics,
practical reasoning, and political
philosphy
in antiquity and in christian, jewish and islamic philosophy,
baruch college, city university of new york,
new york, new
york, october l986 “on the
metaphysical
presuppositions of aristotle's nicomachean
ethics,” a
conference on
the virtues, institute
on human values, university of san diego, february 1986 |
“another apology of socrates,” philosophy department, university
of nevada, las vegas, fall 1983 |
“philosophy:
the dubious profession,” philosophy department,
university of nevada, las vegas, fall 1983 |
“philosophy: the
dubious profession,” the faculty development
series, university of nevada-reno, fall 1983 |
“analysis
and holism in moore and aristotle,”
philosophy department,
university of nevada, reno, spring 1982 |